The Hubble Wars: Astrophysics Meets Astropolitics in the Two-Billion-Dollar Struggle over the Hubble Space Telescope
Superb book telling the story of Hubble's launch and first year in orbit. It describes the well-known optical flaw (the blurriness) but also many other problems that, frankly, are much less well know but just as troublesome.
While being written so close to the events brings a great immediacy, it suffers in accuracy. I saw weaknesses, errors even, in some technical descriptions. Worst, based on more recent information I've heard, the explanation of the figuring error in the mirror is not wholly correct.
Despite some problems with the details, this is a great book for all interested in aerospace or astronomy.